What major event happened in the year you were born ?

[banjo]

1966 England win the World Cup. Easy one for Me.

 

[Jaguar_uk]

Kennedy was assassinated

 

[Prince Monolulu]

1966 England win the World Cup. Easy one for Me.

Bit dull but same here

Otherwise The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released.

 

[backson]

Decimalisation

 

[Socialist Sid]

The great storm.

 

[Sarisbury Seagull]

1982 - The Falklands War.

 

[fire&skill]

'Revolver' & 'Pet Sounds' released. Oh - and England won an international football tournament.

 

[Frutos]

According to Wikipedia, not really very much at all.

The Miners Strike started, Apple started selling Macs, there was an industrial disaster in India, the Soviet Union didn't turn up for the Olympics and the Grand Hotel got "redecorated".

A quiet year, really.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Munich air disaster

 

[zeetha]

1969 - Man walked on the moon (or the most elaborate hoax in history was perpetrated if you're a conspiracy theorist!)

 

[Wellesley]

I was the main event! Oh, then somebody walked on the moon,or did they.......?

 

[blueandwhitestripes]

The abolition of the death penalty in UK
1964

 

[banjo]

Bit dull but same here

Otherwise The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was released.

Good film.

 

[The Modfather]

The Small Faces released Ogdens Nut Gone Flake & The Beatles released the white album.

 

[symyjym]

Twiggy becomes world-wide sensation.

The third Arab / Israeli war is fought (a.k.a. "Six Day War").

China explodes its first hydrogen bomb.

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

The "Hippie" movement declares "Summer of Love".

Che Guevara is killed in Bolivia.

 

[Stoo82]

Falklands War.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back was released.
Escort MK3 was launched.
John Lennon was shot dead.

 

[Beach Hut]

Kim Philby defected to Russia, Dr Beeching wrote some report about the Railways and the Beatles released their first album.

 

[See-Goals]

1982 - The Falklands War.

This, according to wiki I was exactly 2 months old when the British troops landed.

More importantly, Blade Runner was released.

 

[black & white seagull]

The Beatles broke up.